Strotocera convexa ( Hintz, 1905 )

Gerstmeier, Roland & Weiss, Ingmar, 2009, Revision of the Genera Diplocladus Fairmaire and Strotocera Schenkling (Coleoptera: Cleridae, Tillinae), Zootaxa 2242, pp. 1-54 : 30-31

Strotocera convexa ( Hintz, 1905)

( Figs. 20 , 66 –67)

Philocalus convexa Hintz, 1905: 306 ; Schenkling 1908: 361; Schenkling 1915: 109. Strotocera sjoestedi Schenkling, 1908: 69 , n. syn.

Specimens examined:

Holotype: Ƥ. 553, NKamerun, Johann-Albrechtshöhe, L. Conradt Strotocera , 5, Philocalus convexus, Hintz, Schenkling det., HOLOTYPUS, Philoclaus convexus, Hintz 1905, labelled by MINHUB 2008 ( ZMB).

Holotype: Meru, Sjöstedt, Ngare na nyuki, Typus, Strotocera sjöstedti UNREADABLE, Type, NRM Sthlm; Loan 1884/08 (3, NRM), Strotocera sjoestedti n. syn.

Others: UNREADABLE, Rhodesia, 1908, Schenkling det., DEI convexa (1 ex., DEI); Tanzania: Mto Wa Mbu, (Lake Manyara), (1000m), alla luce, L. Bartolozzi, B. Carletti, B. Cecchi & A. Sforzi legit, 9– 25.IV.1999 (n° Mag. 2187) (1 ex., MZUF); Tanzania: Mto Wa Mbu, (Lake Manyara), (1000m), alla luce, L. Bartolozzi, B. Carletti, B. Cecchi & A. Sforzi legit, 10–25.IV.1999 (n° Mag. 2187) (5 ex., MZUF, 3 ex., CRG); Gingindlouu, SE 29.31 BA, II-1980, R. Oberprieler, Ex. Pretoria University Collection ( UPSA) 2002 (1 ex., TMSA); R.S.Africa, 30.i.–1.ii.1994, Natal: Sodwana Bay NP, lux, leg. M. Uhlig (1 ex., ZMB); Narobi b. Tanga; D. O.Afr., IV.1915 leg. Methner, Homotype, Ekis 1979, Strotocera convexa (Hintz) , Zool. Mus. Berlin, ex MNHB (1 ex. ZMB); South Africa, Transvaal, Montrose Falls, 25.25S 30.44E, 18.x.1990, R.G. Oberprieler, collected of Breonadia salicina (1 ex., SANC); Kamerun, Conradt, Coll. Kraatz, Schenkling det. (1 ex., DEI); South Africa: KwaZulu-Natal, Gingindlovu, 29°02’S 31°35’E, ii.1997 PE Reavell, Light trap (1 ex., SANC); Tanzania (Mbeya), UJEWA 8–9.I.1996, G. Curletti leg. (1 ex., MCCI); Tanzania (Dodoma), KONGWA 17/I/1996, G. Curletti leg. (1 ex., MCCI); Tanzania, Kisanga, -1993, Buffo leg. (1 ex., MCCI); Lamto, Côte d’Iovire, 5.12. III.1969, Cl. Girard (1 ex., MNHN); Coll. Mus. Tervuren, Rwanda: Parc Nat. de la Kagera 25.XII.1971, J. Roggeman (1 ex., MRAC); Nigeria: UdoFR, M State II IV 1978, J.T. Medler Coll., CX-37 (1 ex., CRG); 4.xii.14, Lonely Mine, Rhodesia, H. Swale, Andrewes, Bequest, B.M. 1922–22, Strotocera, Ginter Ekis det. (1 ex., BMNH); Nigeria, Ilorin, June 1912, J.W.S. Macfie, 1913-42, B.M.N.H., pret n°3468 (1 ex., BMNH); Pongolor, Nov 33, UNREADABLE, Strotocera convexa, (Hintz) 85, Ginter Ekis det. (1 ex., TMSA); S.Afr: N. Zululand, Ndumu Game Reserve, 26.54S- 32.17E, 2.12.1992:E-Y:2875, UV light at vlei, leg. Endrödy-Younga (1 ex., TMSA); South Africa: N Province, Arbor farm. Levubu, 23.05S- 30.17E // 28.1.1998:E-Y:3320, at light, leg. R. Müller (1 ex., TMSA). S.Afr; KrugerNatPark, Skukuza, 25.00S- 31.35E, 6– 15.12.1993, leg. Krüger, Dunning (1 ex., TMSA); South Africa, Zululand, Hluhluwe Game Res, 28.05S- 32.04E, 2 November 1970 leg. D. Bourquin, Strotocera convexa, (Hintz) 85, Ginter Ekis det. (1 ex., TMSA); Tansania, ost, Straße zwischen Tanga und Chalinze, 200m, Msata Zaraninge Forest, leg.A.

Puchner 14.IV.2006 (1 ex., CRS); Kenya, central south, Kibwezi Forest, Spring Camp 28.–29.11., 2004 leg. Puchner (1 ex., CRS).

Length: 8mm – 13mm (32 specimens).

Head: Red-brown to almost black; finely and diffusely punctate to wrinkled.

Antennae: Red-brown to dark brown; not reaching base of pronotum when laid alongside; A5–A10 serrate. Pronotum: Light to dark reddish brown (disc may be black with reddish brown spots); anterior half subparallel, conspicuously constricted towards base; surface anterior to transverse depression wrinkled; disc finely and diffusely punctate and wrinkled, with four more or less distint elevations; length:width ratio 1.49:1. Scutellum: Brown to red.

Elytra: Light brown to red-brown, each elytron with a whitish to yellow lateral spot in the basal third and a whitish to yellow transverse fascia in the middle, mostly spanning from lateral to sutural margins, with a narrow, short extension towards base, fascia more or less broadly bordered black; diameter of punctures smaller, equal or larger than interstices, behind fasciae elongate, apex finely punctate; length:width ratio 2.46:1.

Legs: Brown to black.

Lower surface: Head and prothorax brown to red, meso- and metathorax dark brown to black-brown, abdomen light brown to red-brown with first ventrite darker.

Vestiture: With whitish to yellowish hairs.

Distribution: Cameroon, Kenya, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Zimbabwe.

Figures

FIGURE 20: Strotocera convexa; FIGURE 21: Strotocera elegantula n. sp.; FIGURE 22: Strotocera emerita; FIGURE 23: Strotocera flavofasciata; FIGURE 24: Strotocera fulvoplagiata; FIGURE 25: Strotocera grandis.

FIGURE 66: S. convexa, aedeagus, terminal sternite and FIGURE 67: S. convexa, distribution map. tergite.